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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Teaser Tuesday (43): Poe

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just share two "teaser" sentences from your current read (please, no spoilers).

POEby J. Lincoln FennOctober 22, 2013I didn't know what to expect with this book, and I am completely loving it. I'm really enjoying the writing style, so I've included two teasers, one silly and one creepy.

Teaser from 9%:

"I'm an atheist," says Lisa.

"I admire that," says Nate. "But I could never give up hamburgers."

Teaser from 13%:

"He's coming for you," she hisses.And then I find the words. "Leave her alone!" I shout.Maddy gives one last, tremendously impossible leap.

Book Synopsis:

It’s Halloween, and life is grim for 23-year-old Dimitri Petrov. It’s the one-year anniversary of his parents’ deaths, he’s stuck on page one thousand of his Rasputin zombie novel, and he makes his living writing obituaries.

But things turn from bleak to terrifying when Dimitri gets a last-minute assignment to cover a séance at the reputedly haunted Aspinwall Mansion.

There, Dimitri meets Lisa, a punk-rock drummer he falls hard for. But just as he’s about to ask her out, he unwittingly unleashes malevolent forces, throwing him into a deadly mystery. When Dimitri wakes up, he is in the morgue—icy cold and haunted by a cryptic warning given by a tantalizing female spirit.

As town residents begin to turn up gruesomely murdered, Dimitri must play detective in his own story and unravel the connections among his family, the Aspinwall Mansion, the female spirit, and the secrets held in a pair of crumbling antiquarian books. If he doesn’t, it’s quite possible Lisa will be the next victim.